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Description: Photos of F. Suie One store interiors and imported furniture and goods, and several letters from Milton (Ming) See and his wife Sunny while they were on buying trips to Hong Kong for the store. Also includes a sample of F. See On wrapping paper, and tax receipts and oil amd gas leases for various properties owned by the See family.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1911-1989
Call number: mssLeong
Provenance: Gift of Leslee See Leong, February 2020.
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Manuscripts

Oversize mounted photos approximately mid 1960s of F. Suie One Co. goods and interiors, and See family members working. Also some loose photos of F. Sui One Co. and the Los Angeles Chinatown area, advertising, and a large roll of F. See On wrapping paper.

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Family businesses

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Business documents, publicity, advertising, correspondence, photographs, and other materials related to the Leong and See family businesses in Los Angeles Chinatown and elsewhere in the city. Includes items related to the See family's F. Suie One Co. and F. See On import business and antiques stores, and Dragon's Den restaurant, and the restaurants run by the Leong family: Chinese Garden and Soochow.

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Fong See and family

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Documents and photos related to Fong See and his first wife Letticie (Ticie) Pruett and their children. There are many family photos including one color autochrome image of Fong See in a Chinese robe. There is a color photocopy of a second autochrome image but the original is not included. Also includes correspondence and documentation of a family trip to China in 1919; Fong See and Ticie's divorce and the separation of family businesses into F. Suie One Co. and F. See On Co.; and Fong See's later years, second marriage, and family. A small amount of photos and other material related to Fong See's youngest brother Fong Yun and his family.

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F. Suie One Co

Manuscripts

Business documents, photos, publicity, and other items related to the F. Suie One Co., the See family's import and antiques business. Includes business cards, receipts, tax documents, business licenses, vendor correspondence, and press for the import business and subsequent store locations in Los Angeles Chinatown and Pasadena. Also includes lists of paper sons working for the business: Chinese immigrant boys prevented from entering the United States by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, who purchased fraudulent documentation claiming relationships to Chinese Americans, which enabled them to enter the country. There is also a small amount of material related to the SeeMar Furniture Manufacturing Company, owned by Ray and Bennie See.

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See family

Manuscripts

Items related to Florence (Sissie) See and her brothers Milton, Ray, Bennie, and Eddy. Includes school and military service documentation, photos, and some correspondence, particularly between Sissie and her mother Ticie.

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See family generations; the Pruetts

Manuscripts

Small amount of material related to Florence (Sissie) See's brothers and their families, including Richard See and his daughter Lisa See. Primarily photographs and clippings, also some birth, death, and wedding announcements. Also photos and correspondence of Ticie Leong's relatives the Pruett family, including letters to Ticie from her sisters-in-law in Oregon.

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